Sunday, February 02, 2003

This is an example of what I was talking about yesterday .... the author says that humans are only needed rarely in space, and that robot tugs can do most of the work. Humans, and particularly Americans, are an adventuresome lot - we belong in the space frontier. To say that we don't is to deny who we are. If we stop going to space because its not safe, we'll be giving up an essential part of who we are. 6:08:57 PM

This story shows how starved NASA has been for money needed to run the program safely.... if we're going to be a space-faring nation, we need to spend the money to do it right. 3:09:44 PM

Dave W. has some good stuff on the shuttle: Rogers Cadenhead shares a couple of links. Try this one. Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty. He's talking about the Columbia. Another one. "It would never occur to a baby-boomer that anything associated with the shuttle could have historical significance." Great stuff. [Scripting News] 2:04:00 PM